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Trans footballer who broke a woman's knee quits team and threatens lawsuit over female players refusing to play against them

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Hoardasurass · 20/11/2023 17:33

So as the title says a biological male footballer who was allowed by the fa to play on a woman's team with the inevitable consequences for a female player has thrown his tous out of the pram because the women's teams refuse to play against him and is threatening to sue the other clubs so he can play against 16 and 17 year old girls and women

Transgender woman footballer who broke knee of a player quits team https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12771191/Transgender-woman-footballer-left-opponents-terrified-broke-knee-player-blocking-shot-quits-team-threatens-sue-discrimination-rivals-refused-compete-against-her.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

Transgender woman footballer who broke knee of a player quits team

EXCLUSIVE: Francesca Needham, 30, has announced she is to 'step down from playing football for the foreseeable future' for the sake of her club Rossington Main Ladies.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12771191/Transgender-woman-footballer-left-opponents-terrified-broke-knee-player-blocking-shot-quits-team-threatens-sue-discrimination-rivals-refused-compete-against-her.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

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Hoardasurass · 20/11/2023 23:05

kneehightoacat · 20/11/2023 23:01

Perhaps he could play in goal?

Perhaps he could play in a men's team

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kneehightoacat · 20/11/2023 23:01

Perhaps he could play in goal?

Retiredfromthere · 20/11/2023 22:52

The Reddux article above refers to the new version policy the FA is bringing in and so I followed the link to find this - seems that there could be even worse version of current policy incoming? Hoping that the delay in publishing the new policy indicates a 'pause for thought'? https://www.gbnews.com/sport/transgender-football-fa-policy-review-womens-football

FA considers letting footballers 'choose their identity' in England following German precedent

The football governing body is in talks with its German counterpart

https://www.gbnews.com/sport/transgender-football-fa-policy-review-womens-football

Fenlandia · 20/11/2023 22:50

ErrolTheDragon · 20/11/2023 22:43

Does everyone know that women's football could draw a crowd of over 50,000 in 1920? But yet the next year, the FA banned women's teams from its members grounds, saying:
Complaints having been made as to football being played by women, Council felt impelled to express the strong opinion that the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and should not be encouraged.

The ban lasted for 50 years.

You'd have hoped they'd have got over their misogyny by now.

(I quite often pass the Dick Kerr Ladies blue plaque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick,KerrrLadiesF.C. so get a frequent reminder)

Different century, same shit!

LarkingLarks · 20/11/2023 22:49

The FA (and other sports bodies who have caved into this transgendered nonsense) are spineless and gutless woke fools. THEY should be sued by any of the injured women playing these biological men.

Hotchocolatemousse · 20/11/2023 22:45

I loosely work in the sports industry and I can tell you it's been captured big time. It's all magical thinking, rainbows, unicorns & #be kind. The word woman has almost become a tabboo, I don't know how we came to this stage.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/11/2023 22:43

Fenlandia · 20/11/2023 21:43

Over 40,000 people went to a women's football match in Manchester yesterday. Allowing chunky blokes to play at grassroots level will kill the development of the women's game stone-dead.

Does everyone know that women's football could draw a crowd of over 50,000 in 1920? But yet the next year, the FA banned women's teams from its members grounds, saying:
Complaints having been made as to football being played by women, Council felt impelled to express the strong opinion that the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and should not be encouraged.

The ban lasted for 50 years.

You'd have hoped they'd have got over their misogyny by now.

(I quite often pass the Dick Kerr Ladies blue plaque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick,KerrrLadiesF.C. so get a frequent reminder)

PatatiPatatras · 20/11/2023 22:20

I've been wondering for a few days about all the filter usage: don't transwomen actually see each other in public? If they see each other, they most likely know its a man in a dress even if the man is a stranger... do they all think they pass better than the man in the dress they see in the street? They look almost all the same! If you can spot each other then women can spot you too...

agent765 · 20/11/2023 22:14

Plasmodesmata · 20/11/2023 17:45

As Necessary said - got to love pointing out the player in question in the team photo like we couldn't identify which one the article is about.....

Bet he's even easier to spot in the changing room.

Boiledbeetle · 20/11/2023 22:10

00100001 · 20/11/2023 22:01

They can protest like the footballers have with the racism. By literally refusing to play whilst being on the pitch.

I did think they could just walk the full 90 minutes, and not go near the ball, but I wouldn't be surprised If he still managed to cause harm to them whilst they were on the pitch.

AvacadoFieldsForever · 20/11/2023 22:10

Fenlandia · 20/11/2023 21:43

Over 40,000 people went to a women's football match in Manchester yesterday. Allowing chunky blokes to play at grassroots level will kill the development of the women's game stone-dead.

Just as women’s football starts to pick up sponsorship and public interest it gets torn apart by this.

00100001 · 20/11/2023 22:01

Boiledbeetle · 20/11/2023 21:54

Even if he got his wish and the women were forced to play the game, all they have to is in the first thirty seconds of the game say or do something that warrants a red card and get sent off!

They can protest like the footballers have with the racism. By literally refusing to play whilst being on the pitch.

Truthlikeness · 20/11/2023 21:59

PP are right for pointing out that he was just following the FA rules (as misogynistic as they are). What he could achieve by sueing the clubs is to have them censured by the FA for being discriminatory and fined or banned from playing. Then other clubs will think twice about refusing to play trans identifying males. The fact you are permitted single sex sports by law, doesn't really help when the sports governing body has decided it's all fine, nothing to see here.

The FA needs to finally face a reckoning over this. It has badly let down female players for years and displayed absolute cowardice on this subject.

Boiledbeetle · 20/11/2023 21:54

Even if he got his wish and the women were forced to play the game, all they have to is in the first thirty seconds of the game say or do something that warrants a red card and get sent off!

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/11/2023 21:54

Grin I'm sure many TRAs would love that

Froodwithatowel · 20/11/2023 21:48

ZuttZeVootEeeVo · 20/11/2023 21:46

I think he's wants the court to introduced some sort of football conscription.

😂

Hunger Games football.

Fenlandia · 20/11/2023 21:48

ZuttZeVootEeeVo · 20/11/2023 21:46

I think he's wants the court to introduced some sort of football conscription.

Bit like the Hunger Games? Each team has to nominate a representative to take the field against this person?

ZuttZeVootEeeVo · 20/11/2023 21:46

FarEast · 20/11/2023 18:56

So this person is going to sue women for NOT playing football????

I think he's wants the court to introduced some sort of football conscription.

Fenlandia · 20/11/2023 21:43

Over 40,000 people went to a women's football match in Manchester yesterday. Allowing chunky blokes to play at grassroots level will kill the development of the women's game stone-dead.

RethinkingLife · 20/11/2023 21:42

Froodwithatowel · 20/11/2023 20:32

I'll put the kettle on for all the people who wanted to be kind, and were sympathetic and tried to understand and empathise, and basically bought into all the grooming. And are now realising they've been had.

I'm sorry. We've all been there. It's not a nice feeling.

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Boiledbeetle · 20/11/2023 21:29

I'll stick a tenner in his crowd justice fund if he sets one up. It should make for an interesting court case!

DarkDayforMN · 20/11/2023 20:42

Froodwithatowel · 20/11/2023 20:35

The facts are though that he is male, and you are as entitled to perceive him as a he as he is to perceive himself otherwise. And to choose your language as he is to choose his.

WORRIAD. Gender Critical beliefs.

Edited

I meant on this forum; the rules seem to be a grey area and I thought my post might be reported by angry lurkers due to the Reduxx link. (They HATE Reduxx.) Rest assured that I don’t allow genderfeels to dictate my real life speech!

LeggyLegsEleven · 20/11/2023 20:38

Why can’t children play mixed sex contact sports past a certain age but men can play in women’s teams?

Froodwithatowel · 20/11/2023 20:35

DarkDayforMN · 20/11/2023 20:22

Reduxx piece including his full statement. I wanted to know who he’s planning to sue. Hopefully it’s just meaningless chest beating.

his record so far in women’s football: 2 games, 2 goals, one broken knee.
https://reduxx.info/uk-trans-identified-male-threatens-to-sue-for-discrimination-after-women-refuse-to-play-against-his-team-over-safety-concerns/

(am I allowed to “he” this guy since he’s broken women’s bones?)

The facts are though that he is male, and you are as entitled to perceive him as a he as he is to perceive himself otherwise. And to choose your language as he is to choose his.

WORRIAD. Gender Critical beliefs.